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Thomas Kaminski, Professor, Madison College Industrial Maintenance Program, explains how to build an unmanned aeronautical vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone. Kaminski provides shows videos of each generation of drones produced by his students.

David Combs, Professor, Department of Dairy Science, UW-Madison, explains the importance of the fiber digestibility of foraged plants as feed for cattle and sheep. Combs discusses an in vitro method to predict the rate and extent of fiber digestion that greatly improves the ability to predict how ruminants will perform on forages.

Robert Lindner, Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison, explains how galaxies collide with each other. Collisions change the morphology of the galaxy and are important in the life cycle of the galaxies.

Author, playwright and journalist Brad Schreiber talks about the role and the identity of writers, how society views them, and how they can achieve artistic and spiritual satisfaction as writers today.

Edward Hubbard, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, UW-Madison, discusses recent findings which suggest neuroscience can be used to improve educational outcomes. Hubbard shares examples from his work which show the cognitive and neural mechanisms of basic arithmetic.

Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Historian, critiques the NCAA and the business of college sports. Walter Dickey, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School, defends the existence of athletics at first rank universities, such as the UW.

Michael Zinn, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UW College of Engineering, discusses the limitations of robotic catheters that restrict their use to simpler surgical procedures. Zinn introduces the efforts being made to develop improved control and manipulation of the catheters.